Cutshaw v. Cutshaw’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably 4 Va. App. 173 - Fry v. Schwarting (1987), School Board v. Caudill Rowlett Scott, Inc. (1989)
69 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Paul v. Paul · Raymond Thomas Council v. Commonwealth · Eaton v. Eaton · Jackson v. Jackson
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A parent has the legal obligation to support his [or her] children only during their minority. Of course, this obligation does not preclude the parent from contracting to support the children after their minority. However, where such contracts are incorporated into support decrees by a divorce court, they can only be modified by that court to the extent of its jurisdiction. The jurisdiction of a court to provide for child support pursuant to a divorce is purely statutory. The relevant statutes only deal with the court’s power to provide for support and maintenance of minor children. Once the child reaches majority, the jurisdiction of the divorce court to provide for his support and maintenance terminates unless otherwise provided by agreement incorporated into the divorce decree.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] court has the power to correct. . . ministerial omissions nunc pro tunc when the record clearly supports such corrections,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.